Using Beolink 5000, the volume scale on my BC9500 is 0 to 98 with a step size of 2

Ooooh! Cool! A new one that I didn't know about!

But does the BeoCenter 9500 actually play different volume levels for all those steps on the remote? There are only 38 presses from no-bars to max-bars using its front panel. Oddly, the number of presses needed to go from one bar to the next is 3 for the lower levels, but only 2 for the higher ones! (Excluding the first of course, 1 press from no bars to one bar.)

EDIT: It's actually 39 presses -- you can "turn it up to eleven", because the last press is invisible (max bars +1 level, only obvious when you go backwards). Why 39 Steps? Maybe the engineer was an Alfred Hitchcock fan...

Using Beolink 5000, the volume scale on my BC9500 is 0 to 98 with a step size of 2

Ooooh! Cool! A new one that I didn't know about!

But does the BeoCenter 9500 actually play different volume levels for all those steps on the remote? There are only 38 presses from no-bars to max-bars using its front panel. Oddly, the number of presses needed to go from one bar to the next is 3 for the lower levels, but only 2 for the higher ones! (Excluding the first of course, 1 press from no bars to one bar.)

EDIT: It's actually 39 presses -- you can "turn it up to eleven", because the last press is invisible (max bars +1 level, only obvious when you go backwards).

Interesting thread. Also of interest, in addition to how many steps/granularity of the control, what is the taper on all of them and is it mostly the same or not. From the above, it seems to be some kind of non-linear, log taper, which is normal for volume controls, but what is the taper? How did it change, if it did, was there a different design philosophy behind each system. Or did it depend on what the taper was of whatever component was used for the volume control?

Interesting thread. Also of interest, in addition to how many steps/granularity of the control, what is the taper on all of them and is it mostly the same or not. From the above, it seems to be some kind of non-linear, log taper, which is normal for volume controls, but what is the taper? How did it change, if it did, was there a different design philosophy behind each system. Or did it depend on what the taper was of whatever component was used for the volume control?

Hi Jeff,

This is basically what I'm trying to reverse-engineer... Of course, I know the behaviour of the current products, but I'm trying to find out how it intersects / overlaps with the older products. THis is happening in conjunction with some conversations with some colleagues who worked on the older products to find out the reasons behind the different scales.